Special Counsel John Durham went after House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jerry Nadler (D-NY) for accusing his team of “glaring investigative missteps” during its four-year probe of alleged c…
between former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia.
“At no time and in no sense did we act with a purpose to further partisan political ends. To the extent that somebody suggests otherwise — that’s simply untrue and offensive,” he told the House panel of his“For one, we found troubling violations of law and policy in the conduct of highly consequential investigations, directed at members of the presidential campaign, and ultimately a presidential administration,” Durham went on.
“It may be hard to remember, but at the outset of the Durham investigation, Mr. Durham was a well-respected career prosecutor with a solid reputation,” Nadler went on. “The attorney general is supposed to appoint the special counsel to prevent the appearance of politicization in a criminal investigation. Mr. Durham could well have lived up to that expectation.
The report, which was released May 15, did not recommend significant reforms but Durham met with leaders of the House Intelligence Committee in a closed-door meeting on Tuesday to express the need for changes at the FBI.
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